Brief CV (last updated, Dec. 2013)
Michael C. Hickey
Professor of History
Executive Director, Institute for Culture and Society
Department of History
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Bloomsburg PA 17815
education
B.A. Dec. 1981 Northern Illinois University
M.A. May 1984 Northern Illinois University
Summer 1986 Indiana University Summer Slavic Institute
Ph.D. May 1993 Northern Illinois University
teaching
Professor, Bloomsburg University (2002-)
Associate Professor, Bloomsburg University (1996-2002)
Assistant Professor, Bloomsburg University (1992-1996)
Instructor; Northern
Illinois University
publications
books:
Fighting Words: Competing Voices from the Russian Revolution Westport, CN: Greenwood, 2011. 599 pp. Winner of the 2012 ALA RUSA Outstanding Reference Work Award, a 2011 CHOICE Outstanding academic Title.
Smolenshchina na stranitsakh Amerikanskoi istoricheskoi literatury. Ed., with Evgenii Kodin. Smolensk: Ministry of Education of the Russian
Federation, Smolensk State Pedagogical University
Press, 2000. 384 pp.
book chapters:
“Big
Strike in a Small City: The
Smolensk Metalworkers Strike and the Dynamics of Provincial Labor Unrest in
1917.” In Michael Melancon and
Alice Pate, eds., New Labor
History:
Worker Identity and Experience in Late Tsarist Russia. 207-231.
Bloomington:
Slavica, 2002.
“Gorod Smolensk v 1917 godu: revoliutsiia kak politicheskii protsess, voprosy i istochniki.” In E. V. Kodin, ed., Stalinizm v Rossiiskoi provintsii. 55-66.
Smolensk: Smolensk State Pedagogical University, 1999.
“Revoliutsiia na evreiskoi ulitse: Smolensk, 1917 god.” In E. V. Kodin and Michael Hickey, eds., Smolenshchina na stranitsakh Amerikanskoi istoricheskoi
literatury.
53-93. Smolensk:
Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, Smolensk State
Pedagogical University Press, 2000.
“The Rise and Fall of Smolensk's Moderate Socialists: The Politics of Class and the Rhetoric of Crisis in 1917.” In Donald J. Raleigh, ed., Provincial Landscapes:
Local Dimensions of Soviet Power, 1917-1953.
14-35. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh
University Press, 2001.
Revolutionary Russia: New Approaches to the Russian Revolution of 1917. 159-184. New York: Routledge, 2004.
"Smolensk's Jews in War, Revolution, and Civil War," in Aaron Retish, et. al., eds., A Kaleidoscope of Revolutions: Russia in Regional Perspective, 1914-1921 (Bloomington: Slavica, forthcoming).
journal editor:
On the Jewish Street/Na Evreiskoi Ulitse: A Journal of Russian-Jewish History and Culture. Vol. 1 (2011), Vol. 2 (2012). Charles Schlacks, Jr., Publisher.
journal articles:
"Communists vs. Clerics: The Smolensk Choral Synagogue, the Khislavichi Rov Shtibel Synagogue and the NEP Antireligious Campaign." NEP Era: Soviet
Russia 1921-1928 2, no. 1 (2008): 39-59.
“Demographic Aspects of the Jewish Population of Smolensk Province, 1870s-1914.” Acta Slavica Iaponica 19 (2002): 84-116.
“Discourses of Public Identity and Liberalism in the February
Revolution: Smolensk, 1917.” The
Russian Review 55, no. 4 (1996): 615-37.
“Local Government and State Authority in the Provinces: Smolensk,
February-June 1917,” Slavic
Review 55, no. 4 (1996): 863-881.
“Paper,
Memory, and a Good Story: How
Smolensk Got Its ‘October.’” Revolutionary
Russia 13, no. 1 (Dec.2000): 1-19.
“Moderate
Socialists and the Politics of Crime in Revolutionary Smolensk.”
Canadian-American Slavic Studies
35, nos. 2-3 (2001): 189-218.
“Peasant Autonomy, Soviet Power, and Land Redistribution in Smolensk
Province, November 1917-May 1918.” Revolutionary
Russia 9, no. 1 (1996): 19-32.
“'People With Pure Souls': Jewish Youth Radicalism in Smolensk, 1900-1914.” Revolutionary Russia 20, no. 1 (2007): 51-73.
“Revolution on the Jewish Street: Smolensk, 1917.” The Journal of Social History 31, no. 4 (1998): 823-850.
“Roshia yudaya jinn komyuniti no kaibou: Sumorensuku kenn niokeru yudayajiun no junkougakutekei sokumenn, 1870 nenndai-1914 nenn.”
Roshiashi-kenkyu
68 (2001): 40-55.
“Russian Migrant Laborers in Helsinki on the Eve of World War One: A
Research Note.” The Journal of Baltic
Studies 26, no. 4 (1996): 361-74.
“Urban Zemliachestva and Rural Revolution: Petrograd and the Smolensk
Countryside in 1917,” The Soviet and
Post Soviet Review 23, no. 2 (1996): 143-169.
encyclopedia articles:
“All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets (VTsIK),” in George Ryhne, ed., The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, Supplement,
Vol. 1, 216-220. Gulf Breeze:
Academic International Press, Spring 1995.
"The July Days (1917)," in
"Lev Kamenev" in James R. Millar, ed., The Encyclopedia of Russian History. Vol. 2, 720-721. New York: Macmillan, 2004.
book reviews:
To date (Dec. 2013), 80 reviews in Canadian-American Slavic Studies, H-Russia, The Historian, History of Education Quarterly, The Journal of
Baltic Studies, The Journal of Social History, Nationality Papers, NEP Era, Revolutionary Russia, Russian History, The Russian Review, Shofar, Slavic
Review, Slavonica, and The Slavic and East European Journal.
conference presentations:
To date (Dec. 2013), 52 conference papers and commentaries at the AAASS/ASEES and other conferences and seminars in the US, the UK, Russia, and
Japan (not counting panels chaired).
grants and fellowships
Bloomsburg University Faculty Professional Development Re-Assigned Time Award, "Editing On the Jewish Street." Fall 2011
Bloomsburg University Faculty Professional Development Re-Assigned Time Award, "Editing On the Jewish Street." Fall 2010
Bloomsburg University Faculty Professional Development Re-Assigned Time Award, "Editing On the Jewish Street." Spring 2010
Bloomsburg University Individual Faculty Research, "A Pragmatic Anti-Semite in Tsarist Russia: The Career of Mikhail Gromyko." June-July 2007.
Bloomsburg University Faculty Professional Development Re-Assigned Time Award, "2008 AAASS Conference Planning Committee." Spring 2008
Bloomsburg University Faculty Professional Development Re-Assigned Time Award, "Revolutionary Smolensk: 1917 in a Russian Province." Spring 2005
Bloomsburg University Individual Faculty Research, "Travel to Yale University to Use Microfilmed Poalei Tsion Archives." July 2004.
International Research and Exchange Commission Short Term Research Grant, "Disenfranchised Jews, Zionist Youth, and State Power in Smolensk in the 1920s."
Smolensk, Russia. June 2004.
Kennan Institute For Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars East European Short Term Grant, “Sown With Tears: The
Jews of Smolensk.” January-February 2001.
Hokkaido
University Slavic Research Center COE-Foreign Visiting Scholar Fellowship.
June-November 2000.
Bloomsburg University Sabbatical Award, “That Which is Sown With
Tears: The Jews of Smolensk,
1860-1945.” 2000-2001.
Bloomsburg
Foundation Grant, “Smolensk in the Pages of American Historical Literature.”
2000.
Bloomsburg
University Research and Disciplinary Projects Grant, “Sown With Tears: The Jews of Smolensk.” 2000.
Bloomsburg
University Professional Faculty Development Re-Assigned Time Award, ¼ Released
Time Award, “Picturing World History.”
Fall 1999.
Bloomsburg University Research and Disciplinary Projects Grant,
“Memories, Paper Trails, and the Strength of a Good Story.” 1999.
Bloomsburg University Research and Disciplinary Projects Grant, “Archival
Research Trip to Smolensk, Russia.” 1998.
University of Illinois Russian and East European Center Summer Research
Laboratory Associate. July-August
1998.
International Research and Exchange Commission Short-Term Travel Grant, “Crime, Punishment, and State Authority in Revolutionary Smolensk.” Smolensk,
Russia. June 1997.
Bloomsburg University Professional Faculty Development Re-Assigned Time Award, 1/4 Released Time Award, “Crime, Punishment, and State Authority in the
Russian Revolution.” Fall 1997.
Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars East European Center Short-Term Grant,
“Provincial Jewish Society and Politics in the Russian Revolution: Smolensk,
1917.” May-June/August 1996.
NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, “New Departures in the
Comparative Study of Revolutions,” Cornell University. June-August 1996.
Bloomsburg University Individual Faculty Research Grants,
“Revolutionary Smolensk: Politics and Society in Provincial Russia, 1917.”
1996.
Bloomsburg University Professional Faculty Development Re-Assigned Time Award, 1/4 Reassigned Time, “Provincial Jewish Society and Politics in the Russian
Revolution.” Summer 1996.
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Intersystem Project Grant,
“SSHE HistoryNet” and “SSHE History Forum.” 1995-96.
Bloomsburg University Grant for Research and Disciplinary Projects,
“Revolutionary Smolensk.” 1994-1995.
Hayter Endowment Research Grant, Northern Illinois University. 1990.
NIU Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship. 1988-89.
Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship,
Finland. 1987-88.
University of Illinois Russian and Slavic Studies Center Summer Research
Lab Associate. 1985.